Would-be gardeners will
get their first look at the site of a new 124-plot community garden at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center on Sat., Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Hershey Impact, the organization of five Hershey entities that's building the
Hershey Community Garden, will unveil the garden site that day at a free
Community Fall Festival.

The garden is
currently under construction and is slated to open for planting next spring.

The garden will
include benches, a gazebo, picnic tables, water access, compost bins, access to
a storage shed with shared tools and 124 garden plots of three different sizes.

Residents can rent a plot for a suggested donation of $25 a season. One
section will be devoted to growing food that will be donated.

The Oct. 5 event
will feature live music, healthy-food tasting, animals from ZooAmerica, Hershey
characters, pumpkin and rain-barrel painting, a variety of information booths
and a noontime talk on "How to Grow Dinner" by Patriot-News/Pennlive garden
columnist George Weigel.

All of the
activities are free and open to the public.

The festival will
take place in and around a large tent near the garden site, located on the
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center campus along Campus Drive near the Bullfrog Valley Road
entrance to the Medical Center.

The Hershey Community Garden is a project of the Foundation for Enhancing Communities, the fiscal sponsor.